An interchange connecting highways to the busy Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge collapsed early Sunday after a tractor trailer hauling 8,600 gallons of gasoline caught fire, authorities said.The truck's driver suffered second-degree burns, Officer Trent Cross of the California Highway Patrol told KGO-TV.The tanker ignited after crashing into a pylon on an interchange connecting westbound lanes of Interstate 80, which includes the Bay Bridge, to southbound I-880 in Oakland, officials said. (Watch I-Reporter Paul Kochli explain his video of the aftermath of the fiery truck crash )The fire led to the collapse of a second interchange from eastbound I-80 to eastbound Interstate 580 located above the first interchange, Cross said.The Bay Bridge's heavily traveled double decks run about two miles across the San Francisco Bay.... http://www.cnn.com

U.S. forces fired an artillery barrage in southern Baghdad Sunday morning, rocking the capital with loud explosions. The death toll from a suicide car bomb attack in the Shiite holy city of Karbala rose to 68 as residents dug through the debris of heavily damaged shops. The blasts in Baghdad came a day after the U.S. military announced the deaths of nine American troops, including four killed in separate roadside bombings south of Baghdad and five in fighting in Anbar province, a Sunni insurgent stronghold west of the capital. American troops also detained 72 suspected insurgents and seized nitric acid and other bomb-making materials during raids on Sunday targeting al-Qaida in Iraq in Anbar province, a Sunni insurgent stronghold west of the capital, and Salahuddin province, a volatile Sunni area northwest of the capital, the U.S. military said. The size and the pattern of the explosions, which began after 9 a.m. and lasted for at least 15 minutes, suggested ...http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=3097606&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

In northeast Ohio, local residents are facing off with an unlikely adversary: worshippers at a neighborhood church. According to residents, the church's services are far too noisy, but church members say they're simply expressing their faith. Coming together to worship in prayer and song is a weekly ritual for millions, but at Christ the Warrior King Church in Massillon, Ohio, the weekly celebrations are causing complaints. "It is unbelievable," Susan Malinowski said. "We live directly across from the church and the windows vibrate." Residents have petitioned the city to intervene, saying the music and prayer are just too loud. Police have had to stop by on multiple occasions, including during Saturday night's rehearsal, after receiving phone calls. "We are not going to be loud just to disrupt the neighbors," the church's pastor Troy Sowell said. "We are going to celebrate Jesus. That's my First Amendment right." The church members agree. ...http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3097189&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

The same volcanic eruptions that sundered Greenland from Western Europe and created Iceland also triggered intense global warming 55 million years ago, scientists say.“There has been evidence in the marine record of this period of global warming, and evidence in the geologic record of the eruptions at roughly the same time,” said study team member Robert Duncan, an oceanic scientist at Oregon State University, “but until now there has been no direct link between the two.”During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), massive amounts of greenhouse gases were injected into the oceans and atmosphere, causing global sea surface temperatures to rise by up to 10 degrees Fahrenheit.The event changed global rainfall patterns, broiled and acidified the oceans, and killed up to 50 percent of the world’s deep-sea organisms. The warm climate also opened up new migration routes for horses and other mammals into North America and might have even fueled early primate evolution....http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/070426_petm_volcano.html

Many adults in the United States believe their federal government should establish a date for the end of the coalition effort, according to a poll by CBS News and the New York Times. 64 per cent of respondents think the U.S. should set a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq sometime in 2008, up seven points since mid-April.The coalition effort against Saddam Hussein’s regime was launched in March 2003. At least 3,334 American soldiers have died during the military operation, and more than 24,900 troops have been wounded in action.In December 2005, Iraqi voters renewed their National Assembly. In May 2006, Shiite United Iraqi Alliance member Nouri al-Maliki officially took over as prime minister. ...http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/15551

The Pentagon has always denied responsibility for creating the myth that PFC Jessica Lynch went down fighting. Even last week, while Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman conducted hearings about misinformation in the Lynch and Pat Tillman cases, military officials (requesting anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case) insisted they did not know how the tale of Lynch's heroics first got into circulation. But congressional investigators have dug up evidence that a military official did in fact provide at least one newspaper with details of Lynch’s alleged exploits. In an April 3, 2003 story, The Military Times, a specialist newspaper, quoted Navy Capt. Frank Thorp as saying Lynch waged quite a battle prior to her capture. At the time, Thorp was one of the U.S. military’s senior spokesmen in the Persian Gulf. Now a rear admiral, he serves today as a deputy to Dorrance Smith, the Pentagon's public relations chief. (Smith was not head of public affairs at the time Lynch was captured) ...http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18368821/site/newsweek